Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy explore le discours politique de la représentationculturelle et de l'appropriation par le biais d'interventions artistiques et architecturales contemporaines ainsi que de matériaux historiques provenant principalement de la collection du CIVA à Bruxelles. Se basant sur l'exposition éponyme et utilisant l'Art nouveau comme point de départ, cet ouvrage présente une chronique de la représentation du Congo dans les expositions internationales et coloniales organisées en Belgique, France et le Congo entre 1885 et 1958.

A systematic global study of the social cultures within social housing.

Twenty short essays, based on case studies from around the world, describe and illustrate the social elements of social housing developments. This volume embarks on an ambitious journey across continents and contexts, offering up a kaleidoscope of social, political and cultural realities.

The first survey of Nicolai's artists' books.

This publication highlights German conceptualist Olaf Nicolai's (born 1962) experiments with artists' books, their presentation in galleries, his collaborations with authors, designers and publishers, and modes of distribution.

In summer 2022, the exhibition Allemagne / Années 1920 / Nouvelle Objectivité / August Sander at the Centre Pompidou in Paris presented the Cologne photographers major project People of the 20th Century together with the artistic work of his contemporaries, creating a vivid dialogue between them. This text volume brings together the latest research by international scholars on the historical contexts of this seminal work and its reception in photographic history, which has remained influential to this today. It reveals how Sanders photography was not alone in being shaped by an obsessive examination of German society and its typologies: based on Sanders multilayered practice, the book draws a portrait of an era in which the idea of types and representative social samples permeated art as much as popular culture. An extensive bibliography makes this volume a true August Sander reader of our day. Lire la suite Fermer